Comparison of Outpatient Health Care Use Before and After Pediatric Severe Sepsis

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Sep 1;3(9):e2015214. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.15214.

Erin F Carlton^{1

2}, Joseph G Kohne^{1

2}, Matthew K Hensley³, Hallie C Prescott^{4

5}

¹ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
² Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
³ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
⁵ US Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research, Health Services Research and Development Center of Innovation, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Abstract

This cohort study examined the number and type of outpatient health visits before and after hospitalization for pediatric severe sepsis.